Milk-bottle holder.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW CIPRI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MILK-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Application filed March 13, 191'?.

To all 'fn/om i may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANnnnw Girar, a subject oi the King o1 Hungary, and a resident of the city o1 New York, in the county' of .N ew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Bottle Holders, of which the following' is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in devices ior securing or locking milk bottles or similar receptacles, so as to prevent theI same from heilig stolen or the contonls thereof from lufingg ahslractrel by unauthorized persons.

The main object of the prescnl invention is to provide a. simple, ollieicnt and coin-- j'iarativcly inexpensive lorl, [hal may be. alv tached to the door or to the door jan'ib, whereby receptacles may be readily positioned and locked .by the dispenser of the commodity upon the street, and may only be removed therefrom when the house door is opened.

W'ith these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement. and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that nilany changes may be made in the size and prf portion ot the sevrral parts and details of construction Within the scope of the ap pended claim Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl1:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a door jamb and door with a device constructed in accordance With the present invention in position thereon: Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3--3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the door and device, the latter being shown in its open position.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a portion of a door jamb, to which is se cured by hinges 11 a door 12. This door is rovided, at a4 suitable distance from the Jamb, with a horizont-al1 extending bore 13. In alinement .with this or@ is .an aperture Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Deo. 11, 1.917.

Serial No. 154,481.

14 in. a plate 15, Ifastened to the outer lace oi ,the door by scri-Ars lil or otherwise. To the inner face o1' tho door is attached a. plate 17 by sci-mrs 1H or otherwise, said last named plaie boing jiijovided with an opening 19 in registering' position with the bore 13.

The bottle holder or lock consists of' tWo. semi-circuhtr sections or jaws 2O and 21, which are formed oi niotal of the requisite width and lhirlrness, and are pivotcd together al The two sortions of the holder arr ol' a siml lo lit nugly around the neck of an ordinary mill( liolllo 2id, The jaw 2() plfclfrrahly nizulc inhgral with a bolt :."l-,lhal is (lis-posed in the. plane of said jaw and i.-: provided :il its 'free reduced end`25 wit-h screw-threads 2b'. This bolt extends through the bore 13 and. the plates 15 y:iiid 17- Adiacent .its .nnerand the@ is for d on ,the bolt a shoulder 24', adapted 'to7 'abxt against the plate 15. Over the free end of the bolt is drawn a sleeve 27, having interior screw-threads meshing with those of the bolt. A locking nut 28 prevents the sleeve from disengaging itself from the said bolt. The inner end of, the bolt is recessed, as shown at 29, to accommodate an exten sion 30 of the jaw 21. In front of this ex tension termed on the last named liaw a shoulder 81., similar to the shoulder 24 above mentioned. In a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the jaws the sleeve 2T is flattened or reduced lcnigitudi-l nally, and more particularly that side of the same is flattened which faces the jaw 20, as clearly shown at 32. With the plate 17 is made integral, or there may be attached thereto in any suitable manner, a substantially horizontally extending blade spring 33, that contacts with the reduced end 25 of the bolt in front of the sleeve 27. The diameter of the sleeve is somewhat smaller than that of the opening 19 in the plate 17.

The o eration of this device is as follows: When tlie lock is empty (Fig. 2), it may be readily turned. The milkman, arriving with the bottle of milk, turns the lock 90o in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, whereby the flattened portion 32 of the sleeve 27 is brought into registering position with the spring 33. When. in this position, the entire lock is adapted to be shifted in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the bolt, which will permit the jaws of the lock to be opened, the extension 30 of the jaw 21 being released as clearly appears from Fig. 4 of the drawings. The milkrnan then turns the lock 90 in a direction opposite to the one above described, and positions the bottle neck be tween the two jaws of the lock, closing the said jaws and shifting the lock with the bottle therein inward toward the door, whereby the parts are brought into the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, in which the spring 33 contacts with the reduced portion of the bolt and with the front edge of the sleeve, thereby pre-venting the lock from being shifted longitudinally. The bottle and door jamb now prevent the lock from being turned far enough in either direction to bring the flattened portion of the sleeve in alinernent with the spring. To unlock the bottle, it is simply necessary to open the door, and turn and shift longitudinally the lock until the extension 30 of the jaw 21 is released.

It is obvious that instead of mounting the bottle holder on the door, as herein described, the same may be mounted on the jamb, without departing from the invention.

What I claim is:

The combination with a support having a bore extending therethrough, of a bottle holding device including pivotally connected holding jaws, one of said jaws being pro vided with a bolt extending through said bore and having a recess adjacent one face of said support, the other jaw having an extension adapted to be seated in said recess, a sleeve lixedly attached to the free end of said bolt having a longitudinally reduced portion, and a spring mounted upon said support adjacent said sleeve adapted to contact with said bolt in front of said sleeve,

said locking means being adapted to be released by turning the same to bring the reduced portion of said Sleeve into alinement with said spring, whereby the holding means are adapted to zbe shifted in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said bolt to disengage the extension on one of said jaws from said support.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 3rd day of March, A. D. 1917.

ANDREW CIPRI.

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